When Admiral Saunders arrived with his squadron off Louisbourg, he found the entrance blocked by ice, and was forced to seek harborage at Halifax.
He must run ahead blindly across the treeless space for such harborage as might come.
Not long did the boys remain even in a harborage so distant.
The forests south of Lake Ontario gave harborage to the five tribes of the Iroquois, implacable foes of Canada.
Every winter, bands of these savages, driven by famine and fear of the Iroquois, sought harborage in the Huron country, and the mission of Sainte Elisabeth was established for their benefit.
No wonder then that the celebrated outlaw, Peter Retief, had chosen it for his haunt and the harborage of his ill-gotten stock.
It possesses the same lack of harborage for vessels other than small sailing craft.
Mr. Gulick's constant care, which had secured us harborage in Madrid, had provided welcome here.
Sealed with his royal seal hath come his letter to forbid All men to offer harborage or succor to my Cid.
O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed; One harborage sufficed for son and sire.
These two maids Their sisters, girls, gave all their sex could give, Food and safe harborage and filial care; While their two brethren sacrificed their sire For lust of power and sceptred sovereignty.
Our problem was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch every moment of respite to slant off toward the harborage inside the breakwaters.
Geraint replied, "O friend, I seek a harborage for the night.
Speak, if ye be not like the rest, hawk-mad, Where can I get me harborage for the night?
Closets and pantries there are none, for they would only furnish goodharborage for woods-rats and other vermin.
Moreover, the vast roughs of the mountain region offered harborage for outlaws, desperadoes of the border, and here many of them settled and propagated their kind.
He said further that he would land all his men, and bring the "Aimable" and the "Belle" to the safe harborage within.
It will no doubt have a place of safe-keeping and harborage in some one of Astolpho's mansions.
On the firm land, and in open conflict, the lord of Calos had long before conquered this strange people; but in their secure harborage and vast water thickets, they mocked at the power of all the surrounding kings.
